Antique & Vintage Postcards

Victorian-era trade card for A. Shuman & Company, Clothiers, 440 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts. The front features a finely engraved two-panel design: a circular vignette at left showing a Victorian family — gentleman in top hat, lady with parasol, and two children — at the seaside with sailboats, alongside a dramatic scene of Pulpit Rock amid crashing ocean waves with a small boat in peril at right. The reverse serves as an advertising self-measure guide with a diagram of a boy in a suit and instructions for jacket, pants, and long pants measurements, advertising children's and boys' ready-made and custom clothing.